The Lake Charles echo., 1887-01-08
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Hes7y Bartoz..
1,atar Is swssier. for Thou hast tolled,
And care L. light. for Tk0u hast cared;
Let not our wofiIe with self be soiled,
for IN na4imple ways ensnared.
Through llie's long day and deaths dark
b geatls Jssas ! be oar light.
II ". Fate.
I.iEe u not meant to be hard; if IL
is, we make IL so.
Tile grace Of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with youall. Amen--Rsv. 22 .2I.
Hnanau things must be known in
order 70 be loved divine things loved
in order 10 be known.
AIl impatienca Of moDotony, all
weariness Of best things even. are but
signs Of the eternity of onr nature,
the broken human fashions Of the di-
vine.everlastiDguess.
Among the N. @. Baptists there are
ia Woman's Missionary Societies,
sixty-nine Of them constituted this
year. and fhnir receipts for 1886, mp
to Nov. lst, were s1,o10.T0.
I have bapfistry under my plat
form and ! have more baptist mem
bers in my church than those that con-
stitute AT the Baptist churches IN
Brooklyn.-HeHyy Ward Beecher.
Paradise opens upon us at the be-
ginning Of the Bible. paradise re-
gained +" opens al its end. The Bible,
as whole, is manifestly an illustra-
tlon Of Gods loving and ever-con-
trolling aim to save this lost world.
The countenance that reflects most
Of Christ, and shines most with his
love and grace, is most fitted to at
tract the gaze Of careless, giddy
world, and win their restless souls
from the fascinations Of creature
love and ereatnre-beauty.-Dr. Il.
Bonar.
Whether there be lawyers they shall
fail; whether there be professors they
shall cease; whether there be philos.
ophers they shall vanish away but
woman never faileth. Her busy brain
is ever devising, her cunning hand is
ever executing, and her hopeful heart
is ever praying.
Many people spend their time in
trying 10 find the hole where sin got
into the world. If two men break
through the ice INTO mill pond, they
had better ilnnt for some hole 10 get
out, rather than get into q long argu-
ment abont the hole they came TO fall
in.--LOndon Baptist.
What is timer The shadow on the
dial, the striking Of the clock, the
running of the sand, day and night,
summer and winter, months, years,
centuries; these are but arbitray and
outward signs, the measure of time,
not time itself. Time is the life of the
soul.--Longteilo,o's Hyperion. /
Mean whisky, and worse men got
very black eye " in the recent mum.
cipal election in Natchez. All that
money and whisky and contemplate
sectarian prejudice could do was done
to carry the day, but morality and so.
briefly came ont ahead. We make a
broad white mark for Natchez.
The Wesleyan Conference voted
unanimously in favor of second
Ecnmenical Conference of Methodism
TO be held in this country in 1891.
During the past year the WesleyaDs
received 1920 new members, and vet
after putting all the figures together
there was decrease of 779 members.
C3sTistian dayocate.
Sir Rislon Bennett, late President
of the Royal College of Physicians,
say: after great many years ex-
perience, ! do not hesitate to assert
that there is no more fruitful ssurce
of delighted health, and early death
by consumption and other diseases,
than the prolonged and late hours, TO
which shopkeepers aud others are sub
jected"
Avoid multiplicity of businesses of
the world; and in those that are nm
avoidable, labor for an evenness and
tranquility of spirit, that you may be
nntroubled and smooth in all tenn.
pests; for so we shall better tend reli-
gion, when we are not torn in pieces
with The cares Of the world, and seized
upon with low affections, passions, and
interests. Bisdcp Jeremy Taylor.
The man who thinks that high H.
cense is a temperance measure had
better investigate tho snbiect more
closely. When he does so be will see
that il Is nothing more, nothing less
than measure to raise a revenue, and
he may then inquire why the govern.
ment does not pnt high license upon
II il viii promote reform
in the liquor bnsiness, why not in the |
business
Yon find yourself refreshed by the
presence Of cheerful people. Why :
lot make an earnest effort TO confer
hat pleasure on others? Is not cheer 1
ulness a Christian dutyG Elder b.
". Bussey has entered upon his work !,
the successor Of the lamented Or.
andrnm in the pastorate of the Coli
,nm Place Baptist church, Now Or b
ans. Tie and his family we're most N
'rdially welcomed by the church. a. a.
If we would find the one true ideal, !,
Ee would seek the sole Divine ex- ii
nple, we mnst look to Christ and "
hrist alone. The brightest lnstre of ~ Y.
ia brightest flIlOwara Ia hnf MT thn Vi,